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24 alternatives to A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction

PJK's struggles with mental illness and addiction

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
First Rate Madness▲56
Exploring the link between mental illness and leadership
2015 · amazon.ca · its alternatives →
2
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives▲62
How can messiness lead to more creativity and new ideas?
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
The Cannabis Manifesto: A New Paradigm for Wellness▲62
A book about using marijuana as a medical tool
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
The Body of Chris▲66
A memoir of obsession, addiction, and madness
2015 · inkshares.com · its alternatives →
5
Stigma▲137
A daily journal to be happier and more self-aware
2015 · misu.app · its alternatives →
6
Motivational Interviewing in Health Care▲77
Understand how to guide behavior change with change talk
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
Mental Health on The Mighty: Fathers▲61
Real people telling their real stories
2016 · themighty.com · its alternatives →
8
Beyond the Pitch▲98
A forum to help entrepreneurs with mental illness
2015 · beyondthepitch.org · its alternatives →
9
My Struggle▲56
Karl Ove Knausgaard's autobiographical phenomenon
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
10
The Happiness Trap▲63
How to stop struggling and start living
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
11
Transform Your Habits (3rd Edition)▲68
The science of how to stick w/ good habits + break bad ones.
2015 · jamesclear.com · its alternatives →
12
Mental Help Week▲73
A series of articles and podcasts about mental health issues
2014 · geekmentalhelp.com · its alternatives →
13
Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Healt▲68
A how-to guide to understanding and disrupting healthcare
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
Process — Succeeding through struggles ▲54
I interview Jason Zook on how struggles lead us to success
2015 · its alternatives →
15
The Road Less Traveled▲58
Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
16
The Art of Failure▲69
Inspirational stories and artwork about overcoming failure
2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
17
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most▲60
Difficult conversation made easy
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
18
A Field Guide to Getting Lost▲68
A meditation on the pleasures and terrors of getting lost
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
19
Dealingwith.it▲14
Help for dealing with mental barriers & personal struggles
2020 · its alternatives →
20
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living▲59
Time tested methods for conquering worrying
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Lighthouse London - 19: How To Raise, Fail and Find Your True Calling: Mental Health in Startups▲57
James Routledge's startup journey
2016 · wearelighthouse.com · its alternatives →
22
The PM process▲89
A book focused on cracking the PM interview
2014 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
23
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure▲61
How to navigate and succeed in a complex and unpredictable …
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
24
Alcoholics Anonymous▲70
aka "The Big Book"
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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